Handy for VR, though these days it seems to do that automatically most of the time.
No, just between Windows 10 machines, and they obviously have to have Redstone 4 or later. I do think it requires Bluetooth 4, but they were shipping Bluetooth 4 devices five years ago.
Oh. That’s completely useless to me then.
Yeah, I don’t care about any of the changes myself. Little iterative things.
I do like that MS is now transparent with their telemetry, that’s definitely an improvement, but they still don’t let us turn it off.
Which is the only setting that matters.
In the latest infuriating news from miserable corporate bastards at Microsoft compromising your privacy, the bi-annual update 1803 coming out next week no longer allows users to disable web search. It completely ignores the group policies supposed to turn it off. These policies still work in Win10 Enterprise and Education, which means Microsoft intentionally and deliberately broke them.
In this age of #DeleteFacebook and such, do people really care about their privacy? I guess we’ll find out.
Funny you mention that, I just installed Windows 10 Enterprise at home, and I probably spent 2 hours in group policy going through every option to disable microsofts giant ‘fuck you’ to its users, for extra safety I installed it from a USB while the computer was disconnected from the internets.
(Posting this from my W8.1 boot…)
Think I’ll reboot once more while offline and disconnect drives that I do not want W10 to have a drive mapping to and while I install the rest of my software, then it will be time to go online and see how much is leaking.
Unfortunately in this age of “internet installers” I’ve been unable to find Comodo Internet Security 10 offline mode installation pack, so I could set it up while offline (which would be a good idea if you’re installing a firewall, no? )… so guess we’ll see how that works out.
Now to look for a Cambridge Analytica wallpaper, which would be fitting for W10.
However much Apple frustrates me with their suboptimal decisions…
JeffL
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I still can’t get 1709 to update/install so I have no hope for this one.
Great! Hopefully they don’t break that in an upcoming patch.
I actually already had that set, either Shutup10 or Winaero Tweaker must have set it.
Funny thing, I had disabled everyting I could through Gpolicy, and as soon as I booted on the network the system proceeded to download Intel drivers, Razer Synapse 3.0 and some shitty old verison of the Geforce drivers.
The one setting that seemed to have blocked everything was related to certification updates, but unfortunately with it set a lot of other features failed to work because of certificate trust chain being broken/unverified.
Fired up ShutupWin10 and it showed 2-3 additional disable options for many of the things I had disabled through Gpolicy; but I guess a lot of the settings were for ‘user’ mode wheras most of the settings I had set already were for Computer.
Pretty amazing how shitty it is, or, more likely by design to siphon out as much information from the users as possible. Hopefully they get hit hard by GDPR.
stusser
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Yes, I would be pleased as punch if the EU fined Microsoft 4% of their global revenue over this.
And of course enterprise isn’t available for us plebs (volume licensing).
Guess I’m still on 8.1 for the foreseeable future (I don’t get the hate for it anyway)
Seems like W10Enterprise was just as terrible as the lower tiers, considering all the stuff you still had to disable (that was ignored anyway). I dont even trust it to stick to ‘security’ telemetry level as it ignored so much else I set in Group Policy.
Feels like Win10 was built around the premise of siphoning out as much as possible information from the user, changing every PC to a giant mobile phone user interrface. But, they did see how OK everyone were with what google and facebook did and decided to follow suit.
After nothing but issues with it today, including 3 freezes while playing Destiny 2 and a BSOD while playing Civilization 6 DX12 I decided to stick to my Win8.1 install, which I’m planning on reinstalling instead.
8.1 became perfectly fine after some more updates and (for most) avoiding the Metro screen. However, 10 is simply better in pretty much all respects; performance, features, security (NOT privacy, but please note telemetry is in full play in your version, although it’s easier to block iirc).
Yeah, Win10 is a much better OS in an other than that how was the play Mrs. Lincoln sort of way.
Enidigm
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I just noticed that without my consent - unless I missed clicking on something or accidentally clicked on something - the new version of Windows 10 on my gaming PC auto installed Bubble Witch 3, Minecraft, Facebook and a bunch of other apps through the Windows Store. I didn’t even noticed until the updater kept annoying me that it was unable to complete installation for one of the programs.
Did a clean W10 install last night. Had been running an old Win7/8/10 install for years via various upgrades and it’s really nice to have something 100% clean for a change. Also finally started using an SSD I bought a year or so back. Super happy with the setup, now.
Only issue I encountered was having to install twice, due to the USB installer putting my boot information onto my original Windows install drive instead of on the SSD where it installed Windows. Not sure why that happened. So I lost everything after the first post-install reboot and had to go through the whole process again, this time with the HDD completely disconnected during install.
Enidigm, this happened to me last night after my first install, and did not happen during my second and final install. I believe it may be related to how some question is answered somewhere along the way during install, or possibly when first logging into the Microsoft Store app. Can’t remember what it was exactly.
I upgraded two machines to 1803 and didn’t get those.
